Tab completion

Other goodies

ssh-agent wrappers: Get-SshAgent, Start-Ssh-Agent, Stop-SshAgent

Update-AllBranches

Usage

See profile.example.ps1 as to how you can integrate the tab completion and/or git prompt into your own profile.
Prompt formatting, among other things, can be customized using $GitPromptSettings, $GitTabSettings and $TortoiseGitSettings.

Note on performance: displaying file status in the git prompt for a very large repo can be prohibitively slow. Rather than turn off file status entirely, you can disable it on a repo-by-repo basis by adding individual repository paths to $GitPromptSettings.RepositoriesInWhichToDisableFileStatus.

Installing

Verify you have PowerShell 2.0 or better with $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Verify execution of scripts is allowed with Get-ExecutionPolicy (should be RemoteSigned or Unrestricted). If scripts are not enabled, run PowerShell as Administrator and call Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Confirm.

Verify that git can be run from PowerShell. If the command is not found, you will need to add a git alias or add %ProgramFiles%\Git\cmd to your PATH environment variable.

Clone the posh-git repository to your local machine.

From the posh-git repository directory, run .\install.ps1.

Enjoy!

The Prompt

PowerShell generates its prompt by executing a prompt function, if one exists. posh-git defines such a function in profile.example.ps1 that outputs the current working directory followed by an abbreviated git status:

C:\Users\Keith [master]>

By default, the status summary has the following format:

[{HEAD-name} +A ~B -C !D | +E ~F -G !H]

{HEAD-name} is the current branch, or the SHA of a detached HEAD

Cyan means the branch matches its remote

Green means the branch is ahead of its remote (green light to push)

Red means the branch is behind its remote

Yellow means the branch is both ahead of and behind its remote

ABCD represent the index; EFGH represent the working directory

+ = Added files

~ = Modified files

- = Removed files

! = Conflicted files

As in git status, index status is dark green and working directory status is dark red

For example, a status of [master +0 ~2 -1 | +1 ~1 -0] corresponds to the following git status: